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RSC Live: Troilus and Cressida

Are you bound thither?

Better at home, if 'would I might' were 'may' But to the sport abroad:
are you bound thither?

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Better at home, if 'would I might' were 'may'
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But to the sport abroad: are you bound thither?
Duration
9 seconds
Views
26
Timestamp in Movie
00:08:27
Uploaded
Jun 24, 2025
Production
Royal Shakespeare Company

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Movie Summary

Troilus and Cressida swear they will always be true to one another. But in the seventh year of the siege of Troy, their innocence is tested and exposed to the savage corrupting influence of war with tragic consequences.
In all swift haste - Come, go we then together - RSC Live: Troilus and Cressida 00:05
In all swift haste - Come, go we then together
Up to the eastern tower, Whose height commands as subject all the vale, - RSC Live: Troilus and Cressida 00:17
Up to the eastern tower, Whose height commands as subject al...
The noise goes, this: there is among the Greeks A lord of Trojan blood, nephew to Hector - RSC Live: Troilus and Cressida 00:09
The noise goes, this: there is among the Greeks A lord of Tr...
They say he is a very man per se, And stands alone - RSC Live: Troilus and Cressida 00:08
They say he is a very man per se, And stands alone
This man, lady, is as valiant as the lion, - RSC Live: Troilus and Cressida 00:11
This man, lady, is as valiant as the lion,
They say he yesterday coped Hector in the battle and struck him down, - RSC Live: Troilus and Cressida 00:20
They say he yesterday coped Hector in the battle and struck ...
What do you talk of? Good morrow, Alexandra - RSC Live: Troilus and Cressida 00:06
What do you talk of? Good morrow, Alexandra
Was Hector armed and gone ere ye came to Ilium? - RSC Live: Troilus and Cressida 00:04
Was Hector armed and gone ere ye came to Ilium?
Hector was gone, but Helen was not up - RSC Live: Troilus and Cressida 00:23
Hector was gone, but Helen was not up
Who, Troilus? Troilus is the better man of the two - RSC Live: Troilus and Cressida 00:10
Who, Troilus? Troilus is the better man of the two
Ay, if I ever saw him before and knew him - RSC Live: Troilus and Cressida 00:06
Ay, if I ever saw him before and knew him
...is Troilus - RSC Live: Troilus and Cressida 00:09
...is Troilus
No, Hector is not a better man than Troilus - RSC Live: Troilus and Cressida 00:38
No, Hector is not a better man than Troilus
But to prove to you that Helen loves him, - RSC Live: Troilus and Cressida 00:09
But to prove to you that Helen loves him,
Well, you know, 'tis dimpled. - RSC Live: Troilus and Cressida 00:04
Well, you know, 'tis dimpled.
I think his smiling becomes him better than any man in all Phrygia - RSC Live: Troilus and Cressida 00:08
I think his smiling becomes him better than any man in all P...
O yes, an 'twere a cloud in autumn - RSC Live: Troilus and Cressida 00:16
O yes, an 'twere a cloud in autumn
And she takes upon her to spy a white hair on his chin - RSC Live: Troilus and Cressida 00:12
And she takes upon her to spy a white hair on his chin
Queen Hecuba laughed that her eyes ran o'er, and Cassandra laughed, and Hector laughed - RSC Live: Troilus and Cressida 00:08
Queen Hecuba laughed that her eyes ran o'er, and Cassan...
Marry, at the white hair that Helen spied on Troilus' chin - RSC Live: Troilus and Cressida 00:12
Marry, at the white hair that Helen spied on Troilus' c...